Brave Together Podcast: Support and Community for Caregiving Parents

EPISODE 200: Raising a Paralympic Gold Medalist with Bahar Soomekh and Clayton Frech


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Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to today's episode, #200! Can you believe it?!

In this celebratory 200th episode, host Jessica Patay, with co-hosts Dr. Zoe Shaw and Susanna Peace Lovell chat with Clayton Frech and Bahar Soomekh, parents of Paralympic Gold-Medalist, Ezra Frech. They share their journey of parenting a child with a disability, discussing the importance of proactive parenting, soliciting advice from the disabled community and the power of intuition, especially when making big medical decisions. The conversation delves into how they embraced Ezra's passion for sport, instilled confidence, and balanced normalcy with uniqueness in his upbringing. We know their insights will provide valuable lessons for parents facing similar challenges. 

Clayton and Ezra co-founded Angel City Sports, which is a Los Angeles based non-profit that provides year-round sports opportunities for kids, adults, and veterans with physical disabilities or visual impairments. As a family they have been on a mission to transform the way our country views disability and make those with disabilities feel unlimited. Check out Angel City Sports and their upcoming events in the links below. 

Brave Together Parenting Podcast WILL BE BACK on January 15th, 2025 with Season 8, so stay tuned!

Angel City Sports here.

Register for Angel City Sports Youth Weekend March 29th 2025 here.

Find out more about Camp No Limits here.

Find this episode and ALL our Season 7 episodes on Youtube here.

Find our first book from We Are Brave Together here.


Brave Together is the podcast for We are Brave Together, a not-for-profit organization based in the USA. The heart of We Are Brave Together is to strengthen, encourage, inspire and validate all moms of children with disabilities and other needs in their unique journeys. 

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Brave Together Podcast is a resource produced by We Are Brave Together, a global nonprofit that creates community for moms raising children with disabilities, neurodivergence, or complex medical and mental health conditions. The heart of We Are Brave Together is to preserve and protect the mental health of caregiving moms everywhere.

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